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“Video games today are a race to the bottom. They are pure, unadulterated trash and I’m sad for that,” said Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, primarily because he hates “games that isolate.”

What he wants is people play games together. Sort of like an orgy. So Bushnell created uWink –”an entertainment dining experience where people can play tabletop games, interact, and enjoy tasty, reasonably priced meals.”

Social games represent something that has been missing,” he adds. “Most of the board games are purchased by women for families. It is this gaming world that can be re-energized. We used to have families sit down and play a game together. A lot of video games today are very isolated. You don’t see mom and dad, sister and brother, sitting down like they used to play, say, Monopoly,” says Bushnell. “That represented good mentoring time for families that just isn’t happening now.”

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